Tag Archives: lung cancer

Mayo Clinic Responds to NCI’s Lung Cancer Trial Results Showing Mortality Benefit with Low-Dose CT

November 4th, 2010 - 3:54 pm

The National Cancer Institute released initial results of the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST), a randomized national trial including more than 53,000 current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74. The trial compared the effectiveness of two lung … Continue reading →

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Gene is Linked to Lung Cancer Development in Never Smokers

March 29th, 2010 - 11:00 am

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of “never smokers” diagnosed with lung cancer as well as healthy never smokers has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number of those cancers. In … Continue reading →

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Mayo Validates Zebrafish as Nicotine Research Model

October 26th, 2009 - 2:36 pm

Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators have validated the zebrafish as a functional model for nicotine addiction research. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The zebrafish is valuable because it is easy  to study … Continue reading →

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